LibGamePieces

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Welcome to the LibGamePieces wiki. Here I am initiating what I hope will be a collaborative effort to create a game building library that will be of use to anyone trying to design a Role Playing or Simulation game for any platform that supports the C++ programming language.

Eventually the project will include the pieces needed to create characters, items, a world, and other pieces that you need to make a game suit your needs.

Eventually I intend to include everything needed for database and network access. The main branch of the project at this point will be very slanted in the direction of creating a game that I would like to implement myself. I will include a page here eventually for that world setting as well. HOWEVER, I am opening the project up to all who wish to get involved.

The libgamepieces project is a part of the "The World" project. It represents the underpinnings for the "game" portion of the overall project, and will be used as the foundation for other parts of the project.

As a result of re-evaluating the larger project as a whole, the scope of libgamepieces has been somewhat narrowed. This will allow me to make the library more focused, as well as allowing me to get some sort of functional pieces out more quickly.

Primarily goals for this project include:

Code to handle random number generation

Objects to represent items, creatures, and players in the game

Objects to represent various common system tasks

Classes to represent a game system, and various aspects of game systems (Game system in the dice and numbers sense, not the hardware sense).

Message passing between objects

A game will eventually be built using the library to demonstrate its capabilities, and to help keep us on track as to the requirements for the project.

Every project should have a license, and this one is no exception. For various reasons, both practical and phylisophical, I have chosen to use the Modified BSD License (The version that doesn't require a massive advertising initiative).

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